Zine Magubane

Zine Magubane is a scholar whose work focuses broadly on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and post-colonial studies in the United States and Southern Africa. She has held professorial positions at various academic institutions in the United States and South Africa and has published several articles and books.

Early life and education Magubane's father, Bernard Magubane, was a prominent South African scholar and one of the leading anti-apartheid activists based in the United States.

Magubane received her undergraduate degree in politics at Princeton University, and obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. degree in sociology from Harvard.

Career Magubane began her career as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She is the co-editor of Hear Our Voices: Race Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy, a book that highlights the institutional racism and sexism within the academy in South Africa. Magubane is also the editor of Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies, an interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars around the world that addresses race, gender, and identity.

Articles Magubane has published various articles in various publications since she began her academic career in 1994. Magubane is also the author of "The (Product) Red Man’s Burden: Charity, Celebrity, and the Contradictions of Coevalness" in which she uses the concept of 'coevalness' to analyze Western, specifically celebrity, involvement in the Product Red campaign. Other commonly cited articles by Magubane include "The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State," "Globalization and the South African Transformation: The Impact on Social Policy," and "Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory."